Popular Grace Church Fair is July 28

The Annual Grace Church Parish Fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on July 28 at the church grounds at 394 N. Haywood Street in Waynesville.

Highlights of the fair include the ever-popular flea market as well as a boutique of unusual and special items, clothing, children’s booth (run by Grace’s children), books, household goods, furniture, baked goods and more.

Anyone interested in donating items to the fair can drop them by Thatcher Hall at the Church from 10 a.m. to noon Monday through Thursday.

The Naturalist's Corner

My family and I made a quick run up to Waterrock Knob on the Blue Ridge Parkway around dusk last Sunday (July 19) to get a peek at some celestial luminaries. Venus and Jupiter joined the waxing crescent moon on the western horizon. They danced and played hide and seek amidst layered clouds whose purple backs touched the night while their bellies bathed in the last yellow and orange rays of the sun falling over the western horizon. It was a beautiful, tranquil setting.